Public Speaking
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Introduction To Public Speaking
You will need credible forecasts of profitability and strategic benefits if you are proposing investment in your business.
Speech Communication Process
Regardless of the kind of speech communication involved, there are
seven elements speaker, message, channel, listener, feedback,
interference, and situation. Here we shall focus on how these
elements interact when a public speaker addresses an audience.
Your profit and loss (or income) forecasts should detail where, when and how profitability will be achieved.
Add a highlight from your Profit and Loss forecast.
Consider making forecasts for year 1, year 2 and year 3 of your plan.
Developing Confidence
Most people tend to be anxious before doing something important in public. Actors are nervous before a play, politicians are nervous before a campaign speech, and athletes are nervous before a big game.
How will your balance sheet change as a result of this initiative?
- What new assets will you gain?
- What liabilities will you take on?
- How will the ownership of equity change?
Add a key point from the balance sheet forecast.
Analyzing The Audience
Good speakers are audience-centered. To be an effective speaker, you should know something about the psychology of audiences. The first stage in learning about your audience is to undertake a demographic audience analysis.The second stage in learning about your audience is to conduct a situational audience analysis.
How will your costs base change as a result of your initiatives? Think about:
- Changes in fixed costs and overheads
- Changes in variable costs with volume
- Changes in variable costs with better equipment, better processes or better product design
- Changes in materials costs with volume
Add a key point from the costs forecast.
The Tradition of Public Speaking
Given the importance of public speaking, it's not surprising that it has been taught and studied around the globe for thousands of years. Almost all cultures have an equivalent of the English word "orator" to designate someone with special skills in public speaking. The oldest known handbook on effective speech was written on papyrus in Egypt some 4500 years ago. In classical Greece and Rome, public speaking played a central role in education and civic life.
How will sales increase as a result of your initiatives? Think about:
- Increased sales volume
- Increased average value of sales
- Increased sales to existing customers
- Opening up new markets and segments
Add a key point from the sales forecast.
Public Speaking: Concepts and Skills for a Diverse Society
It must be clear to investors what you are asking for, when you need it and when & how it will be repaid - in short, what value they will get for their investment.
Giving you a heightened awareness of and sensitivity to your audience, discussions of classic public speaking topics are grounded in an awareness of the impact of cultural nuances ranging from gender differences to cultures within the United States to the traditions of other nations.
The book combines 2,500-year-old principles with up-to-date research into concepts, skills, theories, applications, and critical thinking proficiencies essential for successful listening and speaking.
Public speaking concepts and skills for a diverse society, 80 equips you with the training and tools to be an effective public speaker and listener in the world of constant cultural, political, and technological changes.
Some don'ts Speaking in Public For Beginners
Investors will ask: how well do you know your customers and your market? Your business plan should show that you are targeting your market by well-defined segments and are focused on creating value for customers.
Don’t speak too softly & Fillers
Don’t Fidget
Don’t want to load up your slide or complex slides
Don’t clutter your notes
Don’t look with your eyes in the wrong place or make bad eye contact
Don’t ramble and get long-winded
Some Dos Speaking in Public For Beginners
Describe the vision and the opportunity that the plan is based on.
The investor's question you answer here is Where are you headed, and why?
Do is have a confident voice where you speak loudly
Do instead is have a nice, confident posture and make nice gestures
Simplify you're notes
So that you can just have a conversational style with your audience, and again, as you're practicing, you have to whittle down those notes so that all you have are talking points, like a little grocery list of items that you're going to talk about, and it almost forces you, or at least frees you, to connect with people, to look up, and to have a nice normal conversation with them and your natural personality.
Add a key point about your Unique Selling Point. Your USP is what will lead marketing, and help customers to choose you over alternatives. In comparison to the alternatives, why will your product or service...
- ... be different?
- ... be desirable?
- ... be better value for customers?
- ... be better performing?
- ... be more accessible or convenient?
- ... offer a better experience?
- ... solve the customer's problems better?
- ... have easily understood benefits?
- ... fit in with the customer's typical behaviour, without needing them to change it?
Direct eye contact
Look directly into person's eye long enough to finish.
Add a key point about your strategy.
How does this opportunity...
- ... address your current weaknesses and challenges?
- ... exploit your capabilities and strengths, and build new ones?
- ... reduce future threats and competition?
- ... fit it with credible forecasts and trends?
- ... strengthen relationships and reputations?
- ... create value for your customers and investors?
Do is give a nice, organized, and concise
You have to take your time beforehand when you're preparing to create a nice introduction, body, and conclusion.
Add a key point about the opportunity that you are pursuing.
- What do you plan to do? What product or service will you offer?
- Why does it need doing?
- Why is there a gap in the market?
- Has it been tried before? What happened?
- Why are you best placed to pursue it?
Tips to Become a Confident and Interesting Speaker
Provide your investors with a clear picture of your business: how it is structured, who owns it, who runs it, and how it is doing so far?
Pay Attention to your Body Language
Cope with Nerves
Think Positively
Practice and Review
Engage your audience members
Public Speaking Activites
Although the executive summary appears first in the document, it is easier to complete it last, when you can summarise and prioritize the key points in your plan.
Speaking a conference
Giving Presentation to customers or audience
CO - workers
The Meaning of Public Speaking
Your business plan is a commercially sensitive document and you may wish to add a confidentiality statement (or non-disclosure agreement) at the front of the document.
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Public Speaking is speak in front of an audiences.
